Sentences with phrase «lines of the opposition»

One could immediately see what the team was missing with his ability to drop deeper and play between the lines of the opposition midfield and defense.

This involves creating a free man between the lines of the opposition's defensive structure.

Not exact matches

The latest poll also shows that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is out of line with the rest of his party in his staunch opposition to marijuana.

As a vice-president of parent company China National Petroleum Corp. explained at an oil and gas industry conference in Calgary, the company felt it was being shut out of Canada's oilsands by political pressure from the U.S. and had lost confidence in Enbridge's ability to manage aboriginal opposition to the line.

On trade, Ross lines up closely with Trump regarding his opposition to the landmark Trans - Pacific Partnership multinational trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim nations, calling the deal «horrible» and adding the administration will be skeptical of larger regional trade deals, instead preferring deals with individual nations.

Kinder Morgan Canada has stopped non-essential work on its Trans Mountain expansion in face of opposition from the province of British Columbia, while Enbridge Inc's Line 3 replacement is facing new hurdles in Minnesota.

I vaguely recall hearing a political quote when I was a kid that went along the lines of, «When the government is falling, it's the Opposition's job to get out of the way.»

It's unclear if all of the projects will go through because of local opposition to power lines and a preference by some area residents for other sources of power.

Hansson's skepticism is in line with opposition by a minority of officials including Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, who has argued that sovereign - debt purchases involve unwarranted risks and undermine the incentive of governments to make economic reforms.

While the 2012 election gave the Liberal Party its worst electoral showing in decades, including the loss of Official Opposition status to the Wildrose Party, many Liberal partisans are lining up to reaffirm Dr. Sherman's leadership.

-- Over 500 people packed a hall in Vegreville to voice their opposition to the construction of new electrical transmission lines.

He sees such people all the time, whether throwing tantrums at the airport because of long lines or flocking to angry rallies in opposition to some form of social change.

This line of thought suggests that the products of minds are best conceived as issuing from constructive acts performed by «embodied psyches,» in which psyche and soma resolve their tensions and oppositions with the help of «radical imagination.»

In Jefferson's letter of September 28, 1820 to William C. Jarvis, from which I quoted earlier his line about judicial «despotism,» he explained his opposition to judicial supremacy in constitutional interpretation as follows:

Something along the lines of the Episcopal church statement that h0m o s3xuality is «divinely ordered» I specifically asked that arguments not be «ad negetiva», that is making your case based on attacking and ridiculing your opposition at the cost of positively stating your own argument.

THIS IS THE LINEUP FOR ARSENAL HAD WENGER BEEN MORE TACTICAL IN THE SUMMER («AGAINST BIG OPPOSITION») WELBECK GIROUD SANCHEZ DIABY CAVARLHO RAMSEY GIBBS KOSCIELNY MERTESACKER CHAMBERS FABIANSKI i have been thinking about it for a long period of time and with the pace and strength in mid maybe we could have a decent shout at the title challenge but as we all know Wenger would hate this line up and put 4 CAMS for them, i think it is better we concentrate on drawing against big oOPPOSITION») WELBECK GIROUD SANCHEZ DIABY CAVARLHO RAMSEY GIBBS KOSCIELNY MERTESACKER CHAMBERS FABIANSKI i have been thinking about it for a long period of time and with the pace and strength in mid maybe we could have a decent shout at the title challenge but as we all know Wenger would hate this line up and put 4 CAMS for them, i think it is better we concentrate on drawing against big oppositionopposition.

Even if there was one guy on the blue line and Ericsson had all day to aim his shot... it would still go right to the opposition and stay in the zone (and on occasion, right in the back of the net).

I'll be the first to admit counter attacking football and Arsenal should go together like cookies and cream but ever since the invicibles teams have refused adamantly to play high defensive lines against us and counters do not work if the opposition has a defensive 5 or 6 set up near the edge of their box when you finally get the ball up there.

All this talk of the likes of Lukaku and Morata are just hot air we wont be buying anyone new Wenger already stated at the end of last season that OG will lead the line and the transfer window would be quiet for AFC why is it after all these years people still think he's playing mind games with the opposition?

Look at ramsey, he can't even have a good pass completion stats and can't control the midfeild and spends most of his time in the opposition box trying to score when he should help defensively and serve as an outlet for the defence and then playing mertesacker in a high line defence.

Was it Ospina's fault to not clear the cross or let the opposition striker get upon yourselves to head the ball in the net... No our defenders couldn't defend that in first place... Even though Ospina tried to push the ball out of the net... but we were just unlucky... because it went inside... And goal line technology reported it as a goal... We were wasteful against the opposition goal... fair enough, it happens, but how come the players suddenly become useless for the team...

awesome line up but our defenders must remain in defense instead of trying to become the top scorers, we need to stop counter attacks against us so Belerin and Monreal / Kolasinc must drop back at all times, this will stop rapid counter attack's against us which in return opposition teams must play further up and stop parking the bus and free up the box for our forwards to be able to have space to do their magic

So there are plenty of examples of the Barcelona juggernaut not steamrollering opposition in every game contrary to the media lines being peddled.

We are in pre-season and there is no permutation of performances, score - lines, quality of opposition, Wenger sound bites that could possibly occur where someone could not find the negative.

Meanwhile Elneny would protect the back line or Ramsay would join the attack, again depending the opposition and stage of the game.

As for his tactics he has none it is simply play our way don't worry about the opposition well we don't have he best team on paper to do that so no wonder we all come up short against the very best with that line of thinking.

Our player saves it and clears it off the line straight off the pitch — you will see at least 10 times in a weekend of football that a player shoots and is then connected with by the opposition — these are not fouls because the advantage is the shot and once it has been taken as long as the ball is out of playing distance of the fouled player then the foul is irrelevant.

Earlier in the season the opposition did not how we would line up bcs Wenger was using either one of walcott or giroud and that made us unpredictable.

There's no doubt that American League teams have had a significant advantage since the inception of interleague play, but public perception has caused oddsmakers to shade their lines to encourage action on their National League opposition.

So if you're inefficient in college, that's not going to change, no matter the line in front of you, the quality of opposition, etc..

Committing the extra number or two in a tighter midfield with Sanchez tirelessly working to stretch the defence should work wonders against teams who employ this tactic, and if the quick combinations pay off and break the lines there will be loads of space in other areas to hurt the opposition.

Perhaps because they had forgotten who the Bullets were — the two teams had not played in three months, thanks to the complexities of the league schedule — the Bucks made it known before the opening game that they did not much care for the opposition the NBA had lined up for the finals.

It gives Arsenal a chance to test Alexis or Walcott out up front against Premier League opposition, with one of the two most likely to lead the front line against Liverpool due to a lack of strikers.

Guys forgetting the snap count and jumping off sides; lining up off sides; running the wrong route; dropping ball;, flipping the ball to the opposition; tackling rather than blocking; taking the wrong line to a runner; over-running tackles; missing blocks completely; blocking in the back; tackling out of bounds; holding opponents rather than blocking or defending; fighting with opponents; failing to block anyone,

Giroud may not be good enough to lead the line BUT he is good enough for Arsenal, he has a habbit of scoring when he hasn't played a couple games and I do think he has a role in the team against the «bully boy» oppositions who think football is Rugby.

Think of that pace as well, Theo in the middle and Bellerin on the right, a high line would be suicide for oppositions.

how can one club have so many losses against any top opposition they come up against, its not the board's fault, they don't buy the players, they don't set the line up, they aren't responsible for motivating the players its the manager's job to do all these and he sure as hell cant, i just hope he calls it quit by the end of the season

But, in reality the better team would be with Elneny protecting the back line or taking the opposition's playmaker out of the game.

But even Arsène's excuses (which have ranged from the opposition being too tackly to having the wrong sort of leaves on the line) have seldom been as crass as those trotted out by the Ginger Whinger following our last couple of meetings with his team.

NSW had effectively shut down Sammy Treherne and Lefau - Fakaosilea for the majority of the game which limited the opposition's attacking play out wide, but Sammy Treherne would not give up and finally got some space to make a run up the sideline only to be tackled into touch just a metre short of the try line by captain courageous Ash Hewson, saving a game winning try.

A common theme is emerging that even when opposition teams do manage to work their way through our two lines of four, the weight of numbers eventually allows the opportunity to get a foot in or pump a rushed clearance into touch.

Due to the high - pressure style of Everton, David Moyes» men play a high line and this allows for constant pressure on the opposition when in possession.

Portugal feed his own ego, too, and the sight of him lining up free kicks to shoot on goal the moment the ball was in the opposition half was laughable.

A cornerstone of the Juventus back line since joining in 2005, his height makes him a threat at set pieces in the opposition's penalty area.

He's an excellent dribbler who can make incisive passes from in front of the opposition defensive line.

Bustos is quick, with a neat line in forward bursts and low pull backs to the edge of the opposition area.

The 2 lines of 4 would be able to close channels and effectively close down space the opposition could play in.

Liverpool will try and maintain a medium midfield line and low defensive block once the opposition have 5 or more players in the LFC half of the pitch.

Another familiar face in the opposition line up will be Romelu Lukaku, with the Belgian moving to Merseyside from Stamford Bridge shortly ahead of the start of the new season.

The best chance of the second half fell to the opposition with Wilkinson providing goal line clearance from George to ensure Big Blue bragging rights.